A famous 1961 study by Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram tested how far people would go to obey authority figure when asked to harm others, and the intense internal conflict between personal morals and the obligation to obey authority figures. Milgram tested a pair of participants, one deemed the "teacher" and the other deemed the "learner." The teacher was instructed to administer electric shocks to the learner (who was supposedly sitting in another room, but in reality was not being shocked) each time they got questions wrong. He instead played recordings which made it sound like the learner was in pain, and if the "teacher" subject expressed a desire to stop, the experimenter prodded him to go on. During the first experiment, 65% of the participants administered a painful although many were uncomfortable about doing so.
Does this experiment lean more towards blind obedience to authority? Or more towards conflicting moral tendencies that lie within? Any other additional thoughts on this experiment.
http://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html
It's what happened in Nazi Germany. The teachers only continued once the instructor told them he would take full responsibility for their actions.
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